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FALL (current):
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING (current):
• Classical
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING 2009
CLASSICAL - COURSES NOT REQUIRING THE USE OF GREEK OR LATIN
| CLA211 Rhetoric: Classical Theory, Modern Practice |
| An introduction to the techniques of classical rhetoric both as a practical skill and as a philosophical approach to civic persuasion. Reading will consist of theoretical discussions of the proper means and ends of persuasion, along with exercises from Greek and Roman manuals of rhetoric. The goals of the course are: acquiring a historically informed understanding of the philosophical and ethical problems these techniques raised in their times; mastering the main classical techniques for persuasive reading, writing, speaking, and image-making; applying these principles to the analysis of a wide range of modern forms of persuasion. |
| Professor Andrew Ford |
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Lecture: 1:30-2:20pm MW - McCosh 66 Precept 01: 2:30-3:20pm W - McCosh 48 Precept 02: 10-10:50am Th - Firestone B06M Precept 03: 11-11:50am Th - Firestone B06M |
| CLA216/HIS216 Archaic and Classical Greece |
| The social, political, and cultural history of ancient Greece from ca.750 B.C. through the age of Philip of Macedon. Special attention is paid to the emergence of the distinctively Greek form of political organization, the city state, and to democracy, imperialism, social practices, and cultural developments. Emphasis is placed on study of the ancient sources, methods of source analysis, and historical reasoning. |
| Professor Nino Luraghi |
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Lecture: 11:00-11:50am MW - Aaron Burr Hall 219 Precept 01: 2:30-3:20pm M - Firestone B06M Precept 02: 11-11:50am T - Firestone B06M Precept 03: 12:30-1:20pm W - East Pyne 111 Precept 04: 1:30-2:20pm W - East Pyne 111 Precept 05: 11-11:50am Th - Firestone B03J |
| CLA327/HIS327/HLS327 Topics in Ancient History and Religion: Women in Ancient Rome |
| This course will examine the lives of women throughout the Roman Period from the foundation of the city to the fourth century A.D. A variety of sources will be used including literary and historical texts, art, and material culture, inscriptions on stone and legal sources. Particular emphasis will be laid on the biographies of individual women within their own particular cultural and political contexts. |
| Professor Harriet I. Flower |
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Seminar: 3:00-4:20pm MW - East Pyne 039 |
| CLA335/HLS335/COM392 Studies in the Classical Tradition: Classical Antiquity and Modern Greek Poetry |
| In this course we will ask about the challenges a poet faces in dealing with a classical tradition. How does an understanding of modernity integrate a classical past and what are the particular ways in which poetry addresses that question? The question extends beyond Greece, but Greece is a particularly good example of seeing an ancient world and its history and themes collide and converse with a distinctly modern real and literary landscape. The examples chosen for close reading come mainly from the writings of the Greek-Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), and the Nobel winning modernist poet-diplomat George Seferis (1900-1971). |
| Professor Constanze Güthenke |
| Seminar: 3:00-4:20pm MW - Firestone 3-8-J |
| CLA345 Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine |
| This course is for undergraduates from all backgrounds with an interest in ancient Greco-Roman medicine and the historical roots of contemporary biomedicine. We will examine how a medical tradition forms around the body as an object of knowledge and therapy, paying close attention to socio-historical context. We also explore issues that remain relevant to medicine, such as the construction of scientific authority, pain and knowledge, error and chance in medicine, narrative and disease, the "naturalization" of cultural categories, the privileging of anatomy, and body-mind interaction. Reading from primary and secondary sources in translation. |
| Professor Brooke Holmes |
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Seminar: 11:00am-12:20pm TTh - 112 Friend Center |
Updated
February 4, 2009 by Jill